List of Famous people who died at 75
Douglas James Christian Haig-Thomas
Sir Robert Gooch, 11th Baronet
Colonel Sir Robert Eric Sherlock Gooch, 11th Baronet was a British Army officer and local politician.
Ileana Gyulai-Drîmbă-Jenei
Ileana Gyulai-Drîmbă-Jenei was a Romanian foil fencer. She competed at the 1964, 1968, 1972, and 1976 Olympics and won team bronze medals in 1968 and 1972, placing fifth in 1964.
Issa Pliyev
Issa Alexandrovich Pliyev was a Soviet military commander, Pliyev would rise to become the premier cavalry general of the Soviet Army. He became Army General (1962), twice Hero of the Soviet Union, Hero of the Mongolian People's Republic (1971).
Eric Linklater
Eric Robert Russell Linklater CBE was a Welsh-born Scottish poet, writer of novels, short stories, military history, and travel books. For The Wind on the Moon, a children's fantasy novel, he won the 1944 Carnegie Medal from the Library Association for the year's best children's book by a British subject.
Nick Cuti
Nicola Cuti, known as Nick Cuti, was an American artist and comic book writer-editor, science-fiction novelist; he was the co-creator of E-Man and Moonchild, Captain Cosmos, and Starflake the Cosmic Sprite. He also worked as an animation background designer, magazine illustrator and screenwriter.
Cecilia Katharine Smith
Janet Young, Baroness Young
Janet Mary Young, Baroness Young was a British Conservative politician. She served as the first ever female Leader of the House of Lords from 1981 to 1983, first as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and from 1982 as Lord Privy Seal.
Orlando Ramírez
Orlando Aliro Ramírez Vera was a Chilean football forward who played for Chile in the 1966 FIFA World Cup. He also played for Universidad Católica and Palestino.
Terence O'Neill
Terence Marne O'Neill, Baron O'Neill of the Maine, PC (NI), was the fourth Prime Minister of Northern Ireland and leader (1963–1969) of the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP). A moderate unionist, who sought to reconcile the sectarian divisions in Northern Ireland society, he was Member of the Parliament of Northern Ireland for the Bannside constituency from 1946 until his resignation in January 1970; his successor in the House of Commons of Northern Ireland was Ian Paisley, while control of the UUP also passed to more hard-line elements.